I am dedicated to supportive and creative forms of teaching and graduate supervision.
Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss the possibility of PhD supervision.
Completed PhD Students
Melisa Maida (2024) Negotiating Belonging: The Transnational and Local Experiences of Refugee and Asylum-seeking Families in Tyneside. Funded by +3.5 ESRC NINE-DTP scholarship. Currently working as a post-doctoral research associate at Northumbria University.
Christos Galavis (2024) A Mountain Threnody: Hillwalking and Homecoming in the Scottish Highlands. Funded by Principle’s Scholarship.
Nico Stefanovics (2016) The Making of a New Downtown: Urban Place-Making in HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany.
Current PhD Students
Daniel Jones, Geographies of Impulse: A Study of Individuals with Tourette’s Syndrome and the Embodied Experience of Public Space. +3.5 ESRC NINE-DTP.
Alex Hoyos-Twomey, Making Space: Collaborative Art Practice and Community Building in Abandoned New York City Public Schools, 1980-1990. +3 Northern Bridge DTP
You Zhou (2023) ‘Drifting in Africa’: A Practice-led Feature Documentary Film about Chinese Workers in Ethiopia
MA Students
Katie James, How do female autistic university students navigate university spaces at Newcastle University?
Undergraduate Courses Taught (last four years)
GEO2110 Social Geographies
GEO2232 City of Crisis, City of Hope: Amsterdam
GEO3159 Migration, Bordering and Solidarities
GEO3099 Dissertation
